Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Shiomi
Hiroshi Shiomi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240146026Abstract: The present technology provides a surface emitting laser capable of improving flatness of a surface of a buried layer while reducing diffraction loss of light in the buried layer. The surface emitting laser according to present technology includes a first structure including a first multilayer film reflector, a second structure including a second multilayer film reflector, and a resonator disposed between the first and second structures, in which the resonator includes an active layer, a tunnel junction layer disposed between the first structure and the active layer and having a mesa and an adjacent region adjacent to the mesa, and a buried layer that buries a periphery of the mesa and a periphery of the adjacent region, and an interval between the mesa and the adjacent region is less than or equal to 30 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Mikihiro YOKOZEKI, Hiroshi NAKAJIMA, Tomomasa WATANABE, Michinori SHIOMI
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Patent number: 11736635Abstract: A reading apparatus, having a platen glass, a document cover, a conveyer, a reading sensor, a document supporting member, a pressing plate, and a linkage assembly, is provided. The document cover is movable between an open position and a closed position. The document supporting member is movable between a first position, where the document supporting member faces a reading surface of the reading sensor, and a second position, where the document supporting member is separated from the reading surface. The pressing plate is movable between a third position, where the pressing plate is attached to a lower side of the document cover, and a fourth position, where the pressing plate is removed from the lower side. The linkage assembly moves the document supporting member from the first position to the second position in conjunction with the pressing member moving from the third position to the fourth position.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mamoru Namba, Tadanobu Chikamoto, Genki Hoshino, Hiroshi Shiomi, Takashi Ohama
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Publication number: 20220329704Abstract: A reading apparatus, having a platen glass, a document cover, a conveyer, a reading sensor, a document supporting member, a pressing plate, and a linkage assembly, is provided. The document cover is movable between an open position and a closed position. The document supporting member is movable between a first position, where the document supporting member faces a reading surface of the reading sensor, and a second position, where the document supporting member is separated from the reading surface. The pressing plate is movable between a third position, where the pressing plate is attached to a lower side of the document cover, and a fourth position, where the pressing plate is removed from the lower side. The linkage assembly moves the document supporting member from the first position to the second position in conjunction with the pressing member moving from the third position to the fourth position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mamoru Namba, Tadanobu Chikamoto, Genki Hoshino, Hiroshi Shiomi, Takashi Ohama
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Publication number: 20220329708Abstract: A reading apparatus, having a document tray, an ejection tray, a conveyer path connecting the document tray and the ejection tray and having a curved section, a conveyer to convey an original document in a conveying orientation, a first reading sensor, and a second reading sensor, is provided. The first reading sensor is located upstream in the conveying orientation from the curved section in the conveyer path. The first reading sensor optically reads a first side of the original document from below. The second reading sensor is located upstream in the conveying orientation from the first reading sensor in the conveyer path. The second reading sensor optically reads a second side of the original document from below. The first side and the second side are sides of the original document that face upward and downward, respectively, in the state where an original document is placed on the document tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mamoru NAMBA, Tadanobu CHIKAMOTO, Genki HOSHINO, Hiroshi SHIOMI, Takashi OHAMA
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Publication number: 20210004172Abstract: A data processing system includes a storage apparatus having a plurality of data storages and a processing control apparatus, the processing control apparatus is configured to: calculate hash information from data; and uniquely decide an arrangement destination of the data in the plurality of data storages according to the calculated hash information, and the storage apparatus is configured to: move specific data specified as a movement processing target among a plurality of pieces of stored data stored in the data storage from the arrangement destination of the specific data to a movement destination; and write information on a storage position of the specific data to the arrangement destination of the specific data after the movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: MASARU SHIMMITSU, Osamu KIMURA, Hiroshi Shiomi, Takako Kato, Yoichi YASUFUKU
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Patent number: 10718564Abstract: A gas liquefaction apparatus includes at least a source-gas supply line that supplies source gas; a room-temperature heat exchanger, a preliminary-cooling heat exchanger, and a liquefaction/supercooling heat exchanger that are provided in series sequentially in the source-gas supply line and that cool the source gas; a separation drum that separates the source gas containing a condensate, which has been cooled by heat exchange up to a liquefaction temperature of the source gas or below, into a gas component and a liquefied component; and a refrigerant-gas supply line that uses a gas component separated by the separation drum as refrigerant gas to supply the refrigerant gas in a direction opposite to a supply direction of the source gas, in order of the liquefaction/supercooling heat exchanger, the preliminary-cooling heat exchanger, and the room-temperature heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.Inventors: Wataru Matsubara, Atsuhiro Yukumoto, Nobuyuki Nishioka, Hiroyuki Furuichi, Takeo Shinoda, Hiroshi Shiomi
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Patent number: 10690368Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The memory stores first information and second information. The first information includes a permission time with respect to each of a plurality of operation states of the information processing apparatus in an activation state. The permission time is a time allowed for switching a substitute apparatus from a standby state to the activation state. The second information includes an activation time required for activating each of a plurality of modules which operate on the substitute apparatus. The processor identifies one permission time corresponding to a current operation state. The processor determines stop modules such that a total time for activating the stop modules is equal to or less than the one permission time based on the second information. The processor instructs the substitute apparatus in the standby state to stop the stop modules.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Yoichi Yasufuku, Mikio Ito, Hiroshi Shiomi, Takako Kato, Yasuhito Kikuchi, Hiroyasu Inagaki, Yukinori Matsukawa
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Patent number: 10511502Abstract: An information processing method executed by a processor included in an information processing device includes acquiring, when an error occurred at the information processing device is detected, first identification information that include identification information of a transmission source of a first packet transmitted or received when the error has occurred and identification information of a transmission destination of the first packet; receiving a second packet; determining whether second identification information included in the second packet matches with the first identification information, the second identification information including identification information of a transmission source of the second packet and identification information of a transmission destination of the second packet; storing data corresponding to the second packet when it is determined that the second identification information matches with the first identification information; and transmitting the data to a management deviceType: GrantFiled: June 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Yuya Ikuta, Hideki Nagatomo, Hiroshi Otsuka, Tooru Kobayashi, Hiroshi Shiomi
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Publication number: 20190056135Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The memory stores first information and second information. The first information includes a permission time with respect to each of a plurality of operation states of the information processing apparatus in an activation state. The permission time is a time allowed for switching a substitute apparatus from a standby state to the activation state. The second information includes an activation time required for activating each of a plurality of modules which operate on the substitute apparatus. The processor identifies one permission time corresponding to a current operation state. The processor determines stop modules such that a total time for activating the stop modules is equal to or less than the one permission time based on the second information. The processor instructs the substitute apparatus in the standby state to stop the stop modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Yoichi YASUFUKU, Mikio ITO, Hiroshi Shiomi, Takako Kato, Yasuhito Kikuchi, HIROYASU INAGAKI, Yukinori Matsukawa
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Publication number: 20170366424Abstract: An information processing method executed by a processor included in an information processing device includes acquiring, when an error occurred at the information processing device is detected, first identification information that include identification information of a transmission source of a first packet transmitted or received when the error has occurred and identification information of a transmission destination of the first packet; receiving a second packet; determining whether second identification information included in the second packet matches with the first identification information, the second identification information including identification information of a transmission source of the second packet and identification information of a transmission destination of the second packet; storing data corresponding to the second packet when it is determined that the second identification information matches with the first identification information; and transmitting the data to a management deviceType: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Yuya IKUTA, Hideki NAGATOMO, Hiroshi OTSUKA, Tooru KOBAYASHI, Hiroshi SHIOMI
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Publication number: 20170356687Abstract: A gas liquefaction apparatus includes at least a source-gas supply line that supplies source gas; a room-temperature heat exchanger, a preliminary-cooling heat exchanger, and a liquefaction/supercooling heat exchanger that are provided in series sequentially in the source-gas supply line and that cool the source gas; a separation drum that separates the source gas containing a condensate, which has been cooled by heat exchange up to a liquefaction temperature of the source gas or below, into a gas component and a liquefied component; and a refrigerant-gas supply line that uses a gas component separated by the separation drum as refrigerant gas to supply the refrigerant gas in a direction opposite to a supply direction of the source gas, in order of the liquefaction/supercooling heat exchanger, the preliminary-cooling heat exchanger, and the room-temperature heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Wataru Matsubara, Atsuhiro Yukumoto, Nobuyuki Nishioka, Hiroyuki Furuichi, Takeo Shinoda, Hiroshi Shiomi
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Patent number: 9546495Abstract: A method for constructing a cylindrical tank which has a metallic inner tank and a concrete outer tank includes a step of building up a PC wall in an outer circumferential edge portion of a base plate, a step of assembling an outer tank roof on the base plate other than the outer circumferential edge portion of the base plate, a step of lifting the outer tank roof which is on the base plate using a jack-up unit while the PC wall is being built up and then holding the outer tank roof on the PC wall, and a step of assembling the inner tank independently of the outer tank roof in a space under the outer tank roof which is created due to the lifting.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Shiomi, Noriyuki Katsuyama, Norio Uchiyama, Satoru Nagumo, Masaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 9546758Abstract: A blanket installation method includes: a transporting step of transporting a blanket unit (1), in which a blanket (2) and a transport jig (3) are integrally coupled, between an inner tank (60) and an outer tank (50) of a double shell structure tank in a suspended condition; and a mounting step of mounting the blanket unit (1) on a shell plate of the inner tank (60). The transport jig (3) is formed by attaching a blanket fixing pin (34) to a jig main body (3A) through pin coupling. The blanket (2) is held at the blanket fixing pin (34).Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Shiomi, Masaki Takahashi, Hidenori Suzuki, Satoru Nagumo, Akira Iwano
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Patent number: 9441389Abstract: A method of constructing a cylindrical tank that has an inner tank made of metal and an outer tank made of concrete has a step of building a PC wall (3) by erecting lateral liners (4) sequentially from the bottommost layer to the topmost layer on an outer circumferential edge portion of a base plate, and pouring concrete (5) so as to follow the erecting of the lateral liners (4) with the lateral liners (4) being used as an inner side forming frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Shiomi, Satoru Nagumo, Norio Uchiyama, Noriyuki Katsuyama, Masaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 9367492Abstract: A storage virtualization apparatus includes: a first storing unit to store, with respect to each storage port, a process incomplete command count defined as number of commands not yet processed by the storage device having each storage port; a control unit to obtain process incomplete command counts accumulated by other storage virtualization apparatuses, and stores into a second storing unit a process incomplete command total count that is a total of the process incomplete command counts obtained from the other storage virtualization apparatuses and the first storing unit; and an access request responding unit to, when receiving an access request, obtain the process incomplete command total count about a storage port corresponding to the received access request, and to, when the obtained process incomplete command total count is larger than a prescribed number, cause completion timing of an access responding process to the access request to be delayed.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Hiroshi Shiomi
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Patent number: 9344593Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a base, a supporter supporting a reading object, a reader provided on a mover and disposed between the base and the supporter. The image reading apparatus further includes a flexible flat cable. A first holder provided on the mover and holds a portion of the flat cable in a state in which the first holder is held in contact with a surface of the flat cable. A second holder holds the portion of the flat cable together with the first holder in a state in which the second holder is held in contact with a surface of the flat cable. The flat cable is interposed between the first holder and the second holder and held by the first holder and the second holder.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroshi Shiomi
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Patent number: 9204001Abstract: An image reading device includes: a base member; an outer cover; a top plate member; a carriage; a reading unit; a first drive unit; and a first power supply cable. The base member has a bottom wall, and a peripheral wall defining a moving space in combination with the base member. The outer cover covers the peripheral wall such that the inner surface of the outer cover is opposed to and spaced apart from the outer surface of the peripheral wall. The inner surface and the outer surface define a housing space therebetween. The reading unit reads an image from a medium placed on a platen glass while the carriage is reciprocatingly moved inside the moving space along a moving direction. The first drive unit is supported at the base member and reciprocatingly moves the carriage. The first power supply cable is connected to the first drive unit and accommodated in the housing space.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroshi Shiomi
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Publication number: 20150281483Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a base, a supporter supporting a reading object, a reader provided on a mover and disposed between the base and the supporter. The image reading apparatus further includes a flexible flat cable. A first holder provided on the mover and holds a portion of the flat cable in a state in which the first holder is held in contact with a surface of the flat cable. A second holder holds the portion of the flat cable together with the first holder in a state in which the second holder is held in contact with a surface of the flat cable. The flat cable is interposed between the first holder and the second holder and held by the first holder and the second holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroshi SHIOMI
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Publication number: 20150267434Abstract: A method of constructing a cylindrical tank that has an inner tank made of metal and an outer tank made of concrete has a step of building a PC wall (3) by erecting lateral liners (4) sequentially from the bottommost layer to the topmost layer on an outer circumferential edge portion of a base plate, and pouring concrete (5) so as to follow the erecting of the lateral liners (4) with the lateral liners (4) being used as an inner side forming frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2013Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Shiomi, Satoru Nagumo, Norio Uchiyama, Noriyuki Katsuyama, Masaki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20150197953Abstract: A method for constructing a cylindrical tank which has a metallic inner tank and a concrete outer tank includes a step of building up a PC wall in an outer circumferential edge portion of a base plate, a step of assembling an outer tank roof on the base plate other than the outer circumferential edge portion of the base plate, a step of lifting the outer tank roof which is on the base plate using a jack-up unit while the PC wall is being built up and then holding the outer tank roof on the PC wall, and a step of assembling the inner tank independently of the outer tank roof in a space under the outer tank roof which is created due to the lifting.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2015Publication date: July 16, 2015Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Hiroshi SHIOMI, Noriyuki KATSUYAMA, Norio UCHIYAMA, Satoru NAGUMO, Masaki TAKAHASHI